Davecon isn't just about one Dave, its about all the Daves that made RPG gaming great !
2025 Special Guests
Original Blackmoor player
&
Inventor of Dungeon the board game
50th anniversary celebration
Ross Maker
Co-Creator of Source of the Nile and original Blackmoor player
Harmony
Ginger
Blogger and Youtuber
Justin Alexander
Justin Alexander is the best-selling author of So You Want To Be A Game Master
and
RPG Developer at
Atlas Games.
Baron DeRopp
Dungeon Masterpiece
David Johnson
DJ is a D&D Streamer, Host of the podcast "Architects of Imagination" and award winning Video Game FX Artist, currently the CEO and Creative Director for Undertone FX. If you've played Call of Duty, Halo, Mortal Kombat or many other games you have probably experienced his work.
Greg Gillespie
Author of Barrowmaze, Archaia, HighFell, and Dwarrowdeep and two-time winner of the Three Castles Award for Game Design.
Griff Morgan
Most known in gaming circles as the co-director of Secrets of Blackmoor: the true history of Dungeons & Dragons, Griffith is also an avId RPG player and miniatures war gamer.
He has also been involved with publishing OSR, or Classical RPG, game books, such as, The Lost Dungeon of Tonisborg, Blackmoor Foundations, and behind the scenes as editor on Rob Kuntz AD&D module, Into The Wild Blue Yonder.
He is active advocate for classic RPGs, or anything which uses the same play style.
Nathan
Heard
Creator of MYTHCRAFT
Ken Fletcher
Local Minneapolis artist
Staff artist at Dave Arneson's Adventure Games company, and sci-fi and fantasy fan
Chris Moreland
Producer of
50 years of Fantasy
Kevin McColl
Dave Arneson's
Friend, Webmaster
and
Gaming Historian
The Infamous
EGG of COOT
It's not Gary Gygax as some suspect.
Killian Smith
Local Artist and Author
